Fishah wrote:Technically, sure...
But that's totally asinine.
Way back when I got attracted to this series, it was touted as The Biggest waste of Time and Money". The fact that many see it as pointless is a big plus. It's trying to make sense of the series that seems really asinine.
Fishah wrote:If you only want to do one race, buy a shit car and sell if afterwards. You're gonna spend $5k to get a car race-ready, whether it's a crapcan or a rental car. At least if you own the car, you can sell it afterwards.
Doing it with a rental car means having to cut out a roll cage and re-install an interior, which seems like an enormous amount of work. Not to mention you'll blow up a street car unless you add additional cooling/oiling/etc.
Biggest myth in Lemons and a HUGE deterrent for people to join the series. I say Phoey. Race-Ready and race-ready are two different things. For Lemons, I think race-ready is just fine. Drive the car you have, not the car you want it to be. That includes brakes, tires, and so on.
I can get a cage worth of DOM for under $500 (sometimes). It's already got tires, brakes, suspension, etc etc. It'll need a kill switch (which is one of my big deterrents-- figuring out factory wiring without setting off an anti-theft device) and it'll need the airbags and seat belts removed, and then all reinstalled and looking clean, which is the second big deterrent. The final obstacle is all of the nanny devices installed by the big rental car agencies. The car will tattle on you.
To be done RIGHT, it would need to be done with one of the BIG name nationwide rental agencies and with just some run-of-the-mill modern rental car, not some classic or exotic.